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100
cooking, sewing, cleaning, child care
What are domestic skills?
100
postrider
Who is the man who delivered the mail?
100
The first schools where women taught the children in their kitchens.
What are dame schools?
100
Roofs made from reeds.
What are thatched roofs?
100
A man who announced the news to the village, ringing a bell or banging on a drum.
What is the town crier?
200
dark green and black
What were the colors of the Pilgrims' clothes?
200
The person who ground the grain into flour.
Who is the miller?
200
A book made out of a piece of wood and and piece of paper.
What is a hornbook?
200
A big container used to heat water over the fire?
What is a caldron?
200
A loosely formed army made up of men between 16 and 60 years of age.
What is a militia?
300
feeding the animals, milking the cows, fetching the water, making a fire in the fireplace
What are morning chores
300
The person who built the storage barrels.
Who is the cooper?
300
Sticks that boys bit down on to keep them quiet.
What are whispering sticks?
300
A long wooden bench with high sides and a high back.
What is a settle?
300
Laws and rules that the Pilgrims wrote and agreed to follow.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
trousers that ran to just below the knee
What are breeches
400
The cobbler
Who is the person who made and repaired shoes?
400
Students who sat closest to the fire.
Who are students who brought the most firewood?
400
rushlights
What is another name for oil lamps?
400
Two Indians who helped the Pilgrims become friends with the Wampanoag tribe.
Who are Squanto and Samoset?
500
a fish and vegetable stew
What is bubble and squeak
500
He repaired tin pots and pans.
Who is the tinker?
500
The first college in Colonial America.
What is Harvard University?
500
A small storage room where dried vegetables and cured meat were stored.
What is the buttery?
500
Children had to stand to speak, they could not insult their elders, they could not cough or blow their noses at the table.
What are good manners?